Xiaomi

Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories

More stock is NOT wanted as shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top

Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 52

Xiaomi reveals bonkers phone with bolted-on Leica lens that will make you look like a dork

A weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 50

Xiaomi India names Qualcomm as destination for allegedly illegal payments

Asia In Brief PLUS: Toshiba considers offers, clams up; India's HFCL claims Wi-Fi 7 first; Vietnam may censor SocMed; and more

Legal04 Oct 2022 | 1

Xiaomi could be 'adversely affected' by tax allegations in India

India wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working

Personal Tech25 Aug 2022 | 3

China's Xiaomi teases tech to control smart homes with brain waves

You'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly?

Offbeat03 Aug 2022 | 14

Court allows Huawei India CEO to appeal travel ban

Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl

Legal28 Jul 2022 |

Demand for smartphones is drying up

Canalys prelim Q2 data indicates economic headwinds and worries of 'inventory pile-up'

Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 49

India probes ZTE and Vivo over finances, sparking Chinese protests

Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable

Legal01 Jun 2022 | 5

Leica and Huawei terminate trading agreement amid US sanctions

German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead

Personal Tech24 May 2022 | 14

India seizes $725 million of Xiaomi's cash

Chinese giant really got something in return for those cross-border payments, say money laundering cops

Legal03 May 2022 | 17

Smartphone shipments expected to drop again for Q1 2022

Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty

Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 1

Xiaomi adds earthquake alert system to some smartphones

Customers in Indonesia promised warning of wobbles sooner than is otherwise possible

Personal Tech05 Apr 2022 | 3

Chip shortage to end this year – at least for us: Xiaomi

China's smartphone and IoT gadget champ says it might even see a glut by 2023

Personal Tech23 Mar 2022 | 1

China reveals draft laws that heavily restrict deepfakes

Big Tech gets hauled in and reminded of its responsibility to keep China's internet nice

AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 7

India says: Xiaomi the $88m in missing import taxes, please

Investigation finds royalty and licensing fees excluded from transaction values

Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 5

Hot not-Spot-bot spot: The code behind Xiaomi's CyberDog? Ubuntu

Your four-legged open-source friend? CIMON says 'Maybe'

Software03 Dec 2021 | 13

Xiaomi has developed a mini heat pipe so your smartphone doesn't get too hot to handle

Just like NASA did in spacecraft... and Fujitsu did for mobiles in 2015

Personal Tech05 Nov 2021 | 15

Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

Updated Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset

Security22 Sep 2021 | 64

Xiaomi builds a robot dog out of smartphone cameras and an Nvidia edge AI board

Who's an open-source boy? The $1500 CyberDog, that's who

Personal Tech11 Aug 2021 | 14

Xiaomi parties like a winner after coming second on world smartphone sales charts

CEO predicts ‘many vicious and fierce battles coming', bulks R&D budget by 30 percent and hires 5,000 engineers to chase top slot

Personal Tech16 Jul 2021 | 38

Smartphone shipments jumped 26% in Q1 – only to recapture ground lost to the pandemic

Don't call it growth

Personal Tech08 Jun 2021 |

Xiaomi touts Hypercharge 200W charging tech, claims 4,000mAh battery goes from 0 to full in 480 seconds

One of the few differentiators left in the smartphone arena

Personal Tech01 Jun 2021 | 17

Pentagon backs away from labeling smartphone maker Xiaomi a military org run by China's communist elite

Biz to be removed from naughty list following out-of-court settlement

Personal Tech12 May 2021 | 4

Xiaomi scoots off to build electric cars, pumps $10bn into the tank to get things rolling

Logowatch Also reveals first foldable with U-shaped hinge to lighten things up

Personal Tech31 Mar 2021 | 4

Xiaomi grows fast, warns chip shortages will impact product releases

Takes number one smartphone sales slot across swathes of Europe

Personal Tech26 Mar 2021 | 2

Xiaomi didn't turn the glue up to 11 on its new Mi flagship, but still gets low marks for repairability

Yep. Gadget botherers had to haul out a 'specialist tool'

Personal Tech15 Mar 2021 | 11

Xiaomi a comeback story: Mobile firm's stock up 10% after it slides off US blacklist

Judge rules 'Communist Chinese Military Company' designation 'arbitrary and capricious'

Legal15 Mar 2021 | 2

Xiaomi a Snapdragon 888 flagship for €749: Yep, the Mi 11 is rolling out to world outside China

Hits UK shops in March

Personal Tech08 Feb 2021 | 7

No ports, no borders, no hope: Xiaomi's cool but impractical all-screen concept phone

In reality, eschewing cables remains a bad idea until wireless tech catches up

Personal Tech05 Feb 2021 | 49

Xiaomi proof that we're a military company, says Chinese tech slinger as it sues US over ban

Smartphone-slinger wants off America's naughty list, now and forever

Personal Tech01 Feb 2021 | 13

How embarrassing: Xiaomi and Motorola show up to high school prom both wearing remote-charging tech

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

Personal Tech29 Jan 2021 | 51

Xiaomi hit by US sanctions: Can't list on stock exchanges and investors can't invest

Parting shot by Trump – but 'bi-partisan' push against China will continue, says analyst

Legal15 Jan 2021 | 26

The myth of fingerprints: The Xiaomi 10T Pro is well-rounded, but it's definitively a sub-flagship handset

Review 144Hz refresh rate and a 108MP camera?

Personal Tech05 Jan 2021 | 29

Gartner: You think Huawei's sales figures are bad now? Wait till you see next year's

Modestly updating old phones won't work beyond Q4, says analyst

Personal Tech30 Nov 2020 | 13

Xiaomi revenues up by a third due to strong phone sales and triple-digit European growth

Cheap and cheerful clearly appealed during pandemic

Personal Tech26 Nov 2020 | 13

Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe maker starts Android 11 rollout

Ladling out custom brew to its devices

Personal Tech10 Sep 2020 | 1

Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television

And smartphone that shows you its innards if required

Personal Tech12 Aug 2020 | 31

Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi to light a fire under Amazon's Kindle with new e-book reader

Is there room for another player in the Western market?

Personal Tech27 Jul 2020 | 55

CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck

Review High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty?

Personal Tech24 Jun 2020 | 27

Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag

£499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage

Personal Tech19 Jun 2020 | 5

Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard

Threesome now plan to march East and conquer Europe

Personal Tech19 Jun 2020 | 2

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro: £250 mobe still able to deliver value in a brutally competitive niche

Hands On A capable bargain-bin blower, just beware the bloatware

Personal Tech08 Jun 2020 | 15

Xiaomi has such Huawei with words: Our two new phones have 'easy access' to Google apps... unlike that other guy

Who's in China and not involved in the deployment of 5G, eh? We are!

Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 10

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

There are perks to starting out as online-only, says Gartner

Personal Tech01 Jun 2020 | 13

Vodafone woes far from over for Xiaomi Mi 9 owners amid complaints of leaky batteries and voicemails in Romanian

Dupa ton va rugam sa lasati un mesaj

Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 6

Honor launches new UK store, laptop, kettle, er... toothbrush?

Huawei's baby goes 'lifestyle'

Personal Tech20 May 2020 | 11

MIUI importante! Xiaomi's updated Android fork bears better permissions plus new ultra-battery-saver mode

Revoke an app's access with a tap

Personal Tech19 May 2020 | 2

Xiaomi Mi 9 owners furious after dodgy Vodafone software patch bricked their mobes

Updated No calls, no texts, no data

Personal Tech14 May 2020 | 71

Press F2 to pay respects. New Xiaomi Poco Pro has 5G, top-drawer Snapdragon chippery, 64MP camera

Flagship killer at a lower cost, though €500+ isn't exactly budget

Personal Tech12 May 2020 | 19

Xiaomi emits phone browser updates after almighty row over web activity harvested even in incognito mode

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Security04 May 2020 | 12

Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe-flinger proffers two Redmi Note phablets for UK market

IR blasters and headphone jacks, likely south of £350? Oh my

Personal Tech01 May 2020 | 32

Xiaomi, phone home: Chinese everything shop currently making most sales on smartphones

For now. (Having mattresses and smartbogs to fall back on doesn't sound so nuts anymore)

Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 6

Xiaomi in the UK: Multi-eyed Mi Note 10 hits Blighty festooned with cameras and hefty battery life

Chinese tat bazaar's latest smartphone effort will set you back £459

Personal Tech25 Feb 2020 | 11

Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras

Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West

Personal Tech14 Feb 2020 | 24

Xiaomi what's inside: Wow, teardown nerds find debut smartwatch isn't actually a solder-and-resin nightmare

If you can open the damn thing, that is

Personal Tech06 Feb 2020 | 25

Don't Xiaomi pics of other people's places! Chinese kitmaker fingers dodgy Boxing Day cache update after Google banishes it from Home

Redditor finds security camera capturing stills from strangers' cribs

Security03 Jan 2020 | 23